NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars. Anjan Contractor, a senior mechanical engineer at Systems and Materials Research Corporation (SMRC), based in Austin, Texas, received a $125,000 grant from the space agency to build a prototype of his food synthesizer, as was first reported by Quartz. NASA hopes the technology may one day be used to feed astronauts on longer space missions, such as the roughly 520 days required for a manned flight to Mars Continue reading
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> > understands one thing, power. > > the perception that we’re the party of the rich unfortunately continues to grow Continue reading
Freedom In The United States: Is There A Conservative/Libertarian Divide?
When a few years ago Senator Jim DeMint—now president of the Heritage Foundation—was quoted as saying, “you can’t be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative,” many from libertarian think tanks cried foul. Jim DeMint’s statement might have been prompted by the perception that in the U.S. Continue reading
HBFF Announces PROJECT STARGAZER in Partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
*The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) and NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centers recently announced partnership has spawned its first initiative, PROJECT STARGAZER: Developing Diverse Sci Fi Movies for the 21st Century. With a mission to encourage and support creative, multicultural works in the science fiction genre, PROJECT STARGAZER is a competition for screenwriters and filmmakers to create a sci-fi filmed entertainment project featuring NASA technology. It will provide writers and filmmakers from diverse communities with new resources to tell science fiction stories that capture science facts resulting from NASA science missions. Continue reading
Gene Therapy: Prospective Technology Assessment In Its Societal Context: Prospective Technology Asse – Video
Gene Therapy: Prospective Technology Assessment In Its Societal Context: Prospective Technology Asse ll4.me Gene Therapy: Prospective Technology Assessment In Its Societal Context: Prospective Technology Assessment In Its Societal Context This book presents work that has been conducted as part of the research project “Discourse on ethical questions of biomedicine” of the interdisciplinary Working Group Bioethics and Science Communication at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)in Berlin-Buch, Germany. Continue reading
Perception And Cognition – Video
Perception And Cognition Buy from Amazon CA Site www.amazon.ca Product Description Perception And Cognition This book comprises a series of “state-of-the-art” reviews on work relating music and mind. It offers a uniquely broad range of approaches within a single volume, ranging from the psychological, through the computational, to the musicological. Authors were selected from presenters at the Third International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Liege, 1994) to illustrate the wide range of perspectives now being adopted in studying how humans make and respond to music.The book is divided into four sections, each illustrating a different approach to the topic Continue reading
Elizabeth Knox speech on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society" – Video
Elizabeth Knox speech on “The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society” In the seminar “The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society” organized by Soteria International, Elizabeth Knox, a warmhearted pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the State Church of Denmark, talked about the awareness of change at the leadership levels of the church and about the creation of church councils in local communities, re-establishing the connection to the grassroots. Continue reading
Paris named world's most popular tourist destination once again
Sydney, Dec. 10 (ANI): World’s most popular destinations have been named after a record one billion people are set to travel across an international border as a tourist in 2012, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council Continue reading
Spiritual Storm – Flanagan Jr., William Stuart – Video
Spiritual Storm – Flanagan Jr., William Stuart ll4.me Spiritual Storm – Flanagan Jr., William Stuart Readers of Spiritual Storm are initially taken along on a World Record Attempt aboard a 30' Power Boat, in an effort to cross the North Atlantic from New York to Paris. Spiritual Storm continues with a Collection of the Author's Life Stories, which guide the Reader through a set of Circumstances to a conclusion that will transform your thoughts on Spirituality, and revolutionize your perception of Christianity. Continue reading
NASA Mulls Deep-Space Station on Moon's Far Side
There appears to be support within NASA to position astronauts at an Earth-moon libration point to bolster the space agencys plans of pushing beyond low-Earth orbit with its Orion spacecraft design. Anchoring hardware and a crew at the Earth-moon L2 “gateway” would offer many benefits, advocates say. Continue reading
Cycling, Cubo-Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Jean Metzinger's work at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
VENICE.- Opening June 9 (through September 16, 2012), the exhibition Cycling, Cubo-Futurism and the 4th Dimension. Continue reading
Ancient migrations tracked through DNA
HUDDERSFIELD, England, May 8 (UPI) — DNA analysis has provided new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice Age relaxed its grip and retreated, researchers say. Writing in the American Journal of Human Genetics, scientists said research shows the Near East was a major source of replenishment when huge areas of European territory became habitable again about 19,000 years ago. Continue reading